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Aberdeen Daimler CVG6/Weymann No 108 (DRS 358), new in 1950, at the Castlegate in 1965. This bus was the tenth one re-painted with a cream roof instead of grey, in early 1965.
Derbyshire Juggernaughts coming through Eyam Village.
This photo was shortlisted by Advanced Photographer's Weekend Warriors yesterday
The spire of St Mary's Castlegate, York, now an arts and exhibition venue.
Taken on an evening walk with the Incident Light photography group.
12 August 2013
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Pictured on Castlegate, Sheffield, this Stagecoach South Yorkshire Volvo B6BLE carries East Lancs Spryte bodywork and fleet number 31960.
The facade of the house
www.yorkconservationtrust.org/castlegate-fairfaxhouse.html
"A brief history of Fairfax House...
Fairfax House was purchased by Charles Gregory, the 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley, for £2000 in 1759. He employed master architect John Carr of York to transform the existing building into a magnificent and fashionable townhouse for use during the winter season. Lord Fairfax gifted the house to his sole surviving daughter Anne, making her a property-owning woman in her own right. On thriving Castlegate, the main thoroughfare to York Castle, and sitting on the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss, the house was at the very centre of York’s polite society and perfectly positioned as a base from which to enjoy York’s burgeoning city-life and social scene.
In 1919 the house was converted into St George's cinema, with the first floor knocked through to make a dancehall. Dr Arthur Evelyn, an early York conservationist and recorder of York’s heritage, wrote to the cinema company asking them to ‘please take care of the interiors’ and as a result they boxed in and painted over the ceiling and woodwork in dark gloss paint. In a curious way, this helped to protect the decorative details from damage. By the 1960s the cinema company was in financial trouble and sold the building to the City Council. The dancehall on the first floor continued running and was closed in 1980.
Noel Terry, chairman of the famous chocolate firm, was also a founding member and long-serving honorary treasurer of the York Civic Trust. As a keen collector, he had spent a lifetime amassing Georgian furniture, clocks and artwork. He had always intended to leave this to the York Civic Trust in the expectation that the furniture would remain at Goddards, the family home at Dringhouses. However, he left the final decision to the trustees of the Noel Terry Charitable Trust. When Fairfax House came on the market shortly after Noel’s death in 1980, his trustees felt that he would agree that this would be a far more appropriate location in the city centre for the collection than Goddards, an Arts and Crafts style house built in 1926 by Walter Brierley. The resulting bequest to the York Civic Trust was made with Noel Terry’s strict condition that the collection should stay as an entity within the city of York."
Gordon Highlanders Statue, Castlegate, Aberdeen which was unveiled by HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay (Prince of Wales), 15th October 2011
The facade of the house
www.yorkconservationtrust.org/castlegate-fairfaxhouse.html
"A brief history of Fairfax House...
Fairfax House was purchased by Charles Gregory, the 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley, for £2000 in 1759. He employed master architect John Carr of York to transform the existing building into a magnificent and fashionable townhouse for use during the winter season. Lord Fairfax gifted the house to his sole surviving daughter Anne, making her a property-owning woman in her own right. On thriving Castlegate, the main thoroughfare to York Castle, and sitting on the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss, the house was at the very centre of York’s polite society and perfectly positioned as a base from which to enjoy York’s burgeoning city-life and social scene.
In 1919 the house was converted into St George's cinema, with the first floor knocked through to make a dancehall. Dr Arthur Evelyn, an early York conservationist and recorder of York’s heritage, wrote to the cinema company asking them to ‘please take care of the interiors’ and as a result they boxed in and painted over the ceiling and woodwork in dark gloss paint. In a curious way, this helped to protect the decorative details from damage. By the 1960s the cinema company was in financial trouble and sold the building to the City Council. The dancehall on the first floor continued running and was closed in 1980.
Noel Terry, chairman of the famous chocolate firm, was also a founding member and long-serving honorary treasurer of the York Civic Trust. As a keen collector, he had spent a lifetime amassing Georgian furniture, clocks and artwork. He had always intended to leave this to the York Civic Trust in the expectation that the furniture would remain at Goddards, the family home at Dringhouses. However, he left the final decision to the trustees of the Noel Terry Charitable Trust. When Fairfax House came on the market shortly after Noel’s death in 1980, his trustees felt that he would agree that this would be a far more appropriate location in the city centre for the collection than Goddards, an Arts and Crafts style house built in 1926 by Walter Brierley. The resulting bequest to the York Civic Trust was made with Noel Terry’s strict condition that the collection should stay as an entity within the city of York."
St Mary Castlegate is one of the largest of York's many medieval churches and is situated in the south of the old city centre. It ceased to be used for worship several decades ago and for a while was used as the city's heritage centre. Now the interior has been opened up again and used as exhibition space for contemporary art.
The building is mostly of 14th & 15th century construction and is marked by a tapering spire rising from a slender octagonal tower (a feature of a few York city churches). The interior is devoid of its old furnishings, all removed prior to its conversion to secular use, but some fragments of medieval glass survive, reset into a window at the east end of the south aisle.
I am not sure what the current opening times of the church are, but it is safe to assume it will be open as long as there is work exhibited inside. This is an imaginative and sensitive re-use of a redundant parish church and allows visitors to enjoy both the exhibits and the entirety of the building's interior, much more than its previous incarnation did.
Gordon Highlanders Statue, Castlegate, Aberdeen which was unveiled by HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay (Prince of Wales), 15th October 2011
Grantham, National School, Castlegate. Probably originally the Principals House
Grantham, Lincolnshire, Castlegate
April 2016
CASTLEGATE GETS GREY TO GREEN TRANSFORMATION
The scheme links Castlegate to the under-visited ‘hidden jewel’ of Victoria Quays and has transformed the almost redundant former inner ring road from a barrier to a green corridor with sustainable drainage, floral meadows, segregated cycle lanes and public art.
Castlegate (the Street) has been closed to vehicles to create a large riverside terrace with potential to accommodate outdoor seating for existing and future cafes and bars including the former public toilet due to open as the Two Rivers Bar and the Tap and Barrel, now under new management by the Peddlers Market team. The street will also hold the newly established Sheffield Pollen Market, the first fresh flower market in Sheffield, which will take place every third Sunday of the month.
Fifty-seven new trees have been planted as part of the scheme, along with a multitude of low maintenance perennial meadow plants and bulbs which will provide a year long succession of colour and natural habitat for insects, birds and mammals.
The scheme includes four distinctive, specially designed ‘totems’ containing ‘bug hotels’ which provide places for bees and other insects to thrive, along with nature and heritage insights.
11a Union Road the Castle Gate Indian Restaurant in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The building was built as a stables in 1871 by architect W Watkins for A Whitton a wines and spirits dealer who lived at 11 Union Road (which was demolished in 1990 to make way for the new West Gate of Lincoln Castle.
It was later renamed as Castle Cottage and used for residential purposes, until conversion to ground-floor retail newsagents in 1992. Reroofed for conversion to Castlegate Restaurant which opened in November 2007 and closed in 2008. Reopened September 2009 as Castlegate Indian restaurant.
St Mary Castlegate is one of the largest of York's many medieval churches and is situated in the south of the old city centre. It ceased to be used for worship several decades ago and for a while was used as the city's heritage centre. Now the interior has been opened up again and used as exhibition space for contemporary art.
The building is mostly of 14th & 15th century construction and is marked by a tapering spire rising from a slender octagonal tower (a feature of a few York city churches). The interior is devoid of its old furnishings, all removed prior to its conversion to secular use, but some fragments of medieval glass survive, reset into a window at the east end of the south aisle.
I am not sure what the current opening times of the church are, but it is safe to assume it will be open as long as there is work exhibited inside. This is an imaginative and sensitive re-use of a redundant parish church and allows visitors to enjoy both the exhibits and the entirety of the building's interior, much more than its previous incarnation did.
11a Union Road the now former Castle Gate Indian Restaurant in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The building was built as a stables in 1871 by architect W Watkins for A Whitton a wines and spirits dealer who lived at 11 Union Road (which was demolished in 1990 to make way for the new West Gate of Lincoln Castle.
It was later renamed as Castle Cottage and used for residential purposes, until conversion to ground-floor retail newsagents in 1992. Reroofed for conversion to Castlegate Restaurant which opened in November 2007 and closed in 2008. Reopened September 2009 as Castlegate Indian restaurant.
Castlegate is currently closed and undergoing pedestrianisation.
Having experienced a month's-worth of rainfall in just a day on Thursday 7th November 2019 the River Don burst it's banks in Sheffield that night, but thankfully the flood defences put in place after the 2007 floods did their job. by Saturday afternoon the water level had reduced a lot, but was still high. 9th November 2019.